Note: This page was written for the i3 model but I'm sure the i5 model will not be much different

What DOESN'T work out of the box

Sleep/Hibernate (see below)

Nvidia GPU (Switchable GPU, see below)

Disk optimization (!!!!, See GPT and GRUB2 guide below)

What Works out of the Box / With default configuration

CPU (all cores detected)

Wireless

Ethernet

Framebuffer resolution (nouveau and intel xorg drivers provide this)

Intel GPU

Touchpad

Hotkeys (Brightness / Monitor on-off / wifi / sleep)

USB

Not Tested

Bluetooth

HDMI

Installation

Before running the Arch installer, you MUST install and configure a GPT partition scheme. If you do not, you will get terrible performance when writing small files (which should effect most users).

(Pre-install) Configuring GPT (Erasing the whole disk)

You must install some tools that are not included in the installer (you do not have to update pacman):

$ dhcpcd eth0

Update `pacman` and install `gdisk`

$ pacman -Syy

$ pacman -S gdisk

Launch `gdisk`

$ gdisk /dev/sda

Since you want to start a new GPT table, choose the option to create a new GPT table.
The partitioning scheme here is important(!). Since you have to use GRUB2 to boot from a GPT disk, you MUST create a 200MB blank partition that you will never touch again(!). This small partition will hold GRUB2's core.img used for booting.

Using `gdisk`, press `n` to create a new partition, keeping an eye that the start sector should be 2048 and for end sector, enter `+200M`. Do not change the partition type; it should default to 8300. Remember to not format this in the installer.

From here, you can create the rest of your partitions. We will use `parted` to make your drive bootable later. Don't forget to write the changes to disk using the `w` command in `gdisk`.

Here you should reboot. After you boot back into the installer ISO, reinstall `gdisk`.

Now we need to create an MBR for the GPT disk . This allows GRUB2 to be installed to disk.

Open `gdisk` and press `r`, then press `h`... A common looking process is below:

Note: Pay close attention the answers to the prompt. Partition 2 in this case is the partition that contains /boot.

Note: I gathered this output after the installation, some things might be different for you at this stage

Follow the rest of the Sections below to get all of the hardware working.

Input / Touchpad

The keyboard and touchpad work more or less without problems using the xf86-input-keyboard and xf86-input-synaptics modules, respectively. Right- and left-clicking works, as well as Two-Finger scroll. Tapping is enabled out of the box and can be disabled in

/etc/X/xorg.conf.d/10-synaptics.

Nvidia GPU (Optimus)

Note: Your best bet for this part is to install 'yaourt' from the AUR to ease in installing the following packages